Re: [TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot

2016-06-14 Thread Kevin M.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Jay Lewis wrote: > How much as the SIARXC edited for BBCA? 'Cause it ran 20 (yes twenty) > minutes on the mothership. > I fast-forwarded through most of it. The star-f*cking (which often annoyed me with Clarkson, who would trash-talk a

Re: [TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot

2016-06-14 Thread Jay Lewis
How much as the SIARXC edited for BBCA? 'Cause it ran 20 (yes twenty) minutes on the mothership. I'd rather they gave more time to the Focus/Civic/A film or maybe Evans could have said something interesting about the R8. It's funny that you (Kevin) talk about Evans being "dispassionate"

Re: [TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot

2016-06-14 Thread Kevin M.
astar...@gmail.com> > *To:* "tvornottv@googlegroups.com" <tvornottv@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:39 AM > *Subject:* Re: [TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot > > The survey for episode 3 included the following: > > Last

Re: [TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot

2016-06-14 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
like the South African trip, but I thought it was a smoother production than the first episode. David From: Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> To: "tvornottv@googlegroups.com" <tvornottv@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:39 AM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV]

Re: [TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot

2016-06-14 Thread Kevin M.
The survey for episode 3 included the following: Last week the majority of you felt there was an improvement on episode one with the South African challenge being the most enjoyed feature. On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Adam Bowie wrote: > Worth noting that the

Re: [TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot

2016-06-07 Thread Adam Bowie
Worth noting that the question Kevin quoted was from a BBC Worldwide email panel - not the BBC audience ratings arm. The commercial Worldwide is kept at arm's length. The official measure of popularity - Audience Appreciation - is unpublished, but carried out daily and isn't asked in this

Re: [TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot

2016-06-07 Thread Mark Jeffries
Interesting. It still doesn't negate the fact that Murdoch and the Tory press would love to see the BBC neutered. Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Kevin M. wrote: > The BBC's official Top Gear survey began

Re: [TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot

2016-06-07 Thread Kevin M.
The BBC's official Top Gear survey began thusly: So the new series has begun and you’ve started to tell us what you think; last week we definitely felt your disappointment so now we want to hear if things have changed. On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Mark Jeffries

[TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot

2016-06-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
Week 2 of the revamped version of the BBC2 auto show dropped in the numbers down to 2.8M as Rupert Murdoch's Sun (the paper with the bare breasted birds on page 3, so you know it's quality journalism) claims that heavy sweetening was done to cover up silent reactions to Chris Evans and Matt